Recent content by Gamma1214

I'm finally getting back to this build (it's been sitting in the back of the shop) and today I fit the inwales. In keeping with the funky colors theme (and my chaotic need to do things wrong), I decided to mill the gunwales from Cherry with quite a bit of sapwood showing. I again eyeballed the...

I'm trying to keep after this one and ran over to the boat shop today to install the inwales. First order of business was to dump my box of clamps into the boat. I then used a piece of gunwale scrap to guage screw locations and drilled 7/32 Inch holes thru the fiberglass and an 1/8 inch...

Crap. I probably forgot to post the link (don't get old... you're not gonna like it lol)...

You know what they say... "pictures or it didn't happen" Just kidding, but I hope that you'll post pictures during or, at least, after. Many of us enjoy following along & often learn something new (sometimes, it's "don't do that" but that helps everyone too IMO)

Something like this wouldn't work?

True and that's been mentioned before in my other builds. I'm not crazy about the time crunch but I typically don't mind taking things all the way to failure because you can learn alot. In this case, I think I needed more clearance in the dado joints since the sides of my cross rails show...

Definitely describes him. I often tell him that he "tasks" better than just about anybody I've ever met but doesn't "multi- task" worth crap. I got to test drive the jig today and I'm pretty pleased. Drawing inspiration from a small combination square (you might notice my short scarf at the...

You guys are awesome. There are SO many times that I think I should aspire to be more craftsman-like... thanks for keeping me grounded. I spent 3 or 4 hours in my friend's gun shop tonight and went through a couple of variations before landing on what I think is going to work great. Dave's an...

Interesting. I wonder how that would look if I left the inwale short & wrapped the outwale as I've been... might try it that way when finishing the "Extra Trippy Merlin... (wood strip... canoe build)" Just kidding, Glenn. Edit as you wish... whatever grabs your search engine.

Thanks for clarifying. The trailer left me thinking the one guy is extremely arrogant and not someone I'd want to be around or even listen to in a film. Nice to know the personality might be overblown to poke fun at him. I'm left to wonder if some familiarity with the area helps find the humor...

You cut these off the boat, epoxy them together and then fit them as one piece? I could do that but then fitting both ends to have nice, tight joints at the ends would become much more difficult. I usually have to make the last cut (where I'm running the pull saw between both sides) 2-3 times...

They were not installed today. I like Boatman's idea of an insert. I've seen my buddy Dewey (my woodworker for the pieces that need machined) add "cookies" to dado'd joints and something like that would probably work. As it is, I'm going to have a gunsmith friend make up a metal jig so that I...

Thanks Mem. I don't really want to buck every bit of conventional building wisdom but I do try to understand the physics involved and it does seem that full-length glue-up on both sides would make it difficult to get enough pressure on the weak point to cause damage. (though I've been wrong...

Hmm... I'm epoxying the full length of the hull and screwing through the hull into the inner gunwale every 18 inches or so. I also epoxy the outer in place (no screws) making sure that I overlap the inner scarfs by several feet. I know the gunwales are structural but (glued, screwed and...

Awesome TR. Looks like some nice country and well worth the trip.